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It looks to me like a Spring Bounce is on the cards, but if the new money slows after the stamp duty holiday then we could heading back negative in the second half of 2012.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mniHGEdDzvA Canal+ 2001 - (volume a little low on this vid)

BullionVault customers have been buying the dip From BullionVault:

After some months not being updated, I've just noticed that Spline's excellent website is back up to date. For UK house price related stuff: www.houseprices.uk.net Thanks Spline!

Mish swaps silver for gold - Cautious of parabolic move Taking Silver Profits - Swapping Silver for Gold

From a couple of days ago - I don't think it has been posted before, nice gold article from iTulip: Before the FIRE Gold Update: Is $1,237 the new $720? - Eric Janszen iTulip Link

BBC article on new build flats, BTLers pursued for broken contracts, mis-investment etc BBC link

I know it is silly but I just like the image: Back at $1000 - sprinting away or false start?

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the telegraph Link China, Bernanke, and the price of gold

How do the central banks view gold? Market Watch Link European central banks agree to limit gold sales LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The European Central Bank, the euro zone's 16 national central banks, the Swedish Riksbank and the Swiss National Bank on Friday released a joint statement announcing a new agreement to limit gold sales over the next five years. Under the plan, annual sales will not exceed 400 tons and total sales over the five-year period, which begins Sept. 27, will not exceed 2,000 tons. "Gold remains an important element of global monetary reserves," the banks said. The central banks also said the International Monetary Fund's intention to sell 403 tons of gold "can be accommodated" under the agreement.

I haven't seen this posted: itulip's Eric Janszen gets a bit upset with a gold bashing article: Long, but worthy read IMO. Link

Nice chart of POG measured in a basket of currencies: http://news.goldseek.com/BullionVault/1243954800.php

I think the US stock markters open 9:30 - EST which is 2:30pm in good old blighty But I think the New York Nymex gold starts at 1:30pm? You thinking that if it doesn't get to $1000 by the US opening it will not happen? EDIT: From the nymex web site http://www.nymex.com/GC_spec.aspx Comex Gold Trading Hours (All times are New York time) Open outcry trading is conducted from 8:20 AM until 1:30 PM. Electronic trading is conducted via the CME Globex® trading platform from 6:00 PM Sundays through 5:15 PM Fridays, Eastern Time, with a 45-minute break each day between 5:15 PM and 6:00 PM.

I feel like I did march 08 - checking the pog every 30 seconds 986.10 Although by now I should know better 985.80 And the $£ rate has such a big effect on how much gold is worth to me 986.30 £689.72 I am not going to look - oh i pressed refresh again 991.10 woosh! Slow day at work 990.50 - OK that is it assault on $1000 cancelled for today - 990.10. I going for lunch soon so I will stop torturing myself - 988.58 Its just i think i would be more joyful if I knew it was over $1000 - 988.40 Right off to lunch - 990.20, will someone with some money just buy some more right now please!

Linky Karl Denninger getting spooked last night Link also has a youtube clip of nuclear explosions....

A 7min video about people panning for gold to survive in Zimbabwe. 0.1 gram for a loaf of bread. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009...starvation-food (From a GHPC thread)

A little light relief, here is some guys exit policy: http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com...ale-in-new.html

Sorry if this stratery has been discussed before - I only just found out about it. I have been watching some of the TV programmes on hedge funds, one of the ideas they use is the long short trade: go long in one stock and short in another similar stock. For example if you think bank A is going to outperform bank B then you go long A and short B. So you make money if A outperforms B, lose if B outperforms A - but you don't lose anything if both the banks crash (the same amount) at the same time. So if you really think silver is going to outperform gold, then you could go long silver, short gold. So if both PMs fall you don't lose, you only lose if gold outperforms silver. Of course if you think both gold and silver are going to go up it is a bit of a waste of money. I think the strategy is more short term betting than anything and not for me at the moment, but an interesting idea none the less?

I believe spline is behind this website: http://www.houseprices.uk.net/ Prediction stuff here (check out figure 3!): http://www.houseprices.uk.net/articles/hou...rice_predictor/ Website also provides the graph on ghpc -> http://www.globalhousepricecrash.com/ghpc_site/graphs.html

Don't know if this has been posted before: eBay Precious Metals Exchange Link About the Index The eBay Precious Metals Index is based on data taken from the US eBay site. The purpose of the Index is to provide true price data for gold and silver bullion coins and bars. The Index is published daily around 2AM Pacific Standard Time (GMT -7). A program was written to retrieve data from eBay for the categories shown in the Index images. The program tries to filter out collectable, commemorative, and unique items. The data is manually inspected to further refine the items included in the Index. All items are from the US eBay site and only items located in the US are included. Links To link the current Index images on your site use the following urls: http://ebaypmx.com/ebaypmx_large.png http://ebaypmx.com/ebaypmx_small.png Contact info@ebaypmx.com

Link Medium Length interview: he seems to mention most things: recent highs in Oz dollar & GDP, cheap juniors, hedge fund deleverage, $596 trillion in derivatives, bankupt USA, dollar death, money supply increase, mal investments, state bailouts, gold standard, Bretton Woods, price inflation, physical holding as insurance, peak oil - you know - the usual stuff.

Page not showing for me, but have a chart anyway, it is 1 year in GBP

OK, own up, who on here is it? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7657178.stm

Yes I noticed too: Gold up, Dollar up For UK buyers back over £500 < 2% off all time high

Peter Schiff on bailout plan, i think he thinks it is inflationary http://news.goldseek.com/EuroCapital/1221845122.php